Dance-O-Rama – 107/365
Haha, no. I’m not going to show you every photo I’ve taken.
Jonathan and I went down to Filipino American Community of Los Angeles (FACLA) in Historic Filipinotown because they had his event called Dance-O-Rama tonight. It’s open for everyone starting from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. midnight. There were mostly people who are like in my parents’ age, and they sure know how to dance! I was very impressed by it all. This man even wanted to dance with me. I was like: “Uh, I don’t know how to dance,” but I still gave it a try. Haha. I kept looking at my feet because I didn’t know what was I doing. I still don’t. Jonathan took a few photos of me during that moment. Eep. Haha. I also got to try out Jonathan’s external flash thing (name, please) that you attach it to the camera, so you can bounce the flash off the wall to avoid the harsh lighting. I wasn’t sure of it, but after trying it multiple times, I really like it! I got some good photos out of it (there’s one I really like), and that’s mainly why I’m not showing the rest of my photos yet.
Freeway Sign – 100/365
Short and early visit to Historic Filipinotown today, mainly to go to Filipino American Service Group, Inc. (FASGI) with the veterans, but it’s Good Friday, so hardly anyone showed up. Then Jonathan and I went to a church where I felt rather mixed about due to something semi-personal. (Not a lot of people know about it, and I don’t mind telling it if you’re interested.) After that, we went to take photos of freeway signs and other minor stuff. Filipino American Community of Los Angeles (FACLA) was also open, so we went in there and talked to the office manager, who seemed like a nice person. Then I came back home around noon. I took a nap around 3 p.m. because I was really tired, like I was dozing off. So, yeah. Tomorrow is book day at the library. It was going to be at Jonathan’s house, but my mom didn’t like the idea. Heh. But I can’t wait to see what we have for the book then.
By the way, this is my 100th photo for the 365 days project! Whoo!
Slight Frustration – 96/365
More and more documentary work today. Jonathan and I were planning to do interviews on the restaurant part of Historic Filipinotown, but um… they didn’t really work out. We did manage to talk to someone named Beverly, interview her, and a photo at Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), a community center and an after school youth center. Now we just need detail photos of what happens at that place. We also talked to the administrator of the Filipino American Library, interviewed him (his name’s also Jonathan), and a photo. We went around the neighborhood many times, and we even saw this teddy bear, so we took a few photos of that. I personally think the teddy bear looks pissed off, and even though that really isn’t exactly the word to describe how I feel about the documentary, it definitely shows some sort of frustration that’s in this huge project, especially when people decline to work with you…